Download-Center
"All files at one place at a glance" (AFOPAG)
General
ACVacars' Download-Center (DC), accessible by the Main's menu, offers different categories of downloadable ACV-files to ACV-members. The listed files can be downloaded by either double-clicking them or with right-click for opening the context menu of each and then by clicking the download-entry. Do not forget to execute installer-files after downloading them. ACV flights can only be flown with ACV aircraft. Therefore, you have to install the respective ACV aircraft livery either by semi-automated FanMod installer or by manual installation.
Sections Overview
The main sections of this window are:
- DC Settings/Exe-Parameters / [Open folder-path] button / [Livery Manual Installation] button
- Server Modi (Server/Local, Server only, Local only) regarding FSim selection
- Categories section, listing the specific files
- Colorous legend, self-explaining what color of the listed files in the category-listbox does mean.
- Download-buttons for semi-automized downloads, be aware, downloading all flightplans at once can take several minutes.
Categories
The following file categories are available:
- Checklists, look at this category to find ACV-checklists to the specific aircraft. For most but not (yet) for all ACV aircraft do checklists exist.
- Aircraft, clicking that tab lists the available "FanMod Installers". FanMod installers contain ACV livery files and sometimes additional modification files. See the change-log files of the respective FanMod installer to get more information what will be installed.
- Sceneries, here are FanMod installers listed which contain scenery modification files to mod specific airports. See the specific change-log for further details.
- Flightplans, this category lists all flightplan files containing waypoint-routes to many of the available ACV bids/flights. These flightplans are optional. Be aware, the contained waypoints are not always up to date. Use tools like Simbrief to get individual flightplans with updated waypoint-routes.
- Miscellaneous, herein are downloadable files listed not matching the other categories.
Right-click to open the context menu of each file, e.g. for re-install an installer or to view the changelog of an installed installer. The context menu contains the following entries:
- (Re)Download, click to download the marked/selected file.
- (Re)Install, click to install the downloaded installer exe file.
- (Re)Download and (Re)Install,
- Delete
- Uninstall
- Delete and Uninstall
- View ChangeLog
Sections
DC Settings / Exe-Parameters
DC Settings
Depending on the pre-given VA rules, some of these DC settings can be changed and some not. The not changeable ones are greyed out and not clickable.
- Check new files during startup, if activated, ACVacars checks the ACV server for new files while start-up process of ACVacars.
- Show Download-Center if new files, if checked, the Download-Center is being shown automatically after the start-up of ACVacars if any new files on the ACV server have been found.
- Auto-Download new files, if checked, any new files on the ACV server will be downloaded automatically at the end of ACVacars's start-up process.
- Auto-Install downloaded files, if activated, any downloaded installer are being executed automatically after its download completion.
- Auto-Copy new Flightplan to FSim, if checked, any downloaded flightplan-files are being copied to the flightplan folder of the selected flight simulation.
Exe-Parameters
This part-section lists important installer-exe parameters (also known as "console exe-parameters"). Any ACV FanMod installer will respect these exe-parameters during FanMod installer execution (if a parameter is of relevance for the installation). Depending on the pre-given VA rules some of these „ExeParam“, can be changed and some not. The not changeable ones are greyed out and not clickable.